Malvezzi, Helena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5504-6116
Viana, Bruno Gallani
Dobo, Cristine
Filippi, Renee Zon
Podgaec, Sérgio
Piccinato, Carla Azevedo
Article History
Received: 26 July 2017
Accepted: 25 January 2018
First Online: 7 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Helena Malvezzi declares that she has no conflict of interest. Bruno Gallani Viana declares that he has no conflict of interest. Cristine Dobo declares that she has no conflict of interest. Renee Zon Filippi declares that she has no conflict of interest. Sérgio Podgaec declares that he has no conflict of interest. Carla Azevedo Piccinato declares that she has no conflict of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Committee on Human Research of the Hospital Albert Einstein (Number 56229916.9.0000.0071; São Paulo, Brazil), which is part of the Ethics Committee of the Brazilian Ministry of Health (CONEP) on July 13th, 2016.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All patients provided informed consent after the nature of the study was fully explained, and institutional review board approval.